Earl of Cardigan
The Earl of Cardigan, James Brudenell, is the Templar politician behind the plot to kill Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in Sequence 7 of Assassin's Creed Syndicate. Known in Templar letters only as B, he is the target of the memory Motion to Impeach at the Palace of Westminster.
- Role
- Antagonist
- Affiliation
- Templars
Good to know
- Voiced by John Nelles.
- A real historical figure, born in 1797, who led the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava in 1854.
- A Tory MP who opposed reform and bought his way back into Parliament.
- Fights the Corrupt Practices Bill that Disraeli introduces to curb electoral fraud.
- The cardigan sweater is named after the waistcoats he and his officers wore.
The hunt for B
Starrick scolds Cardigan for idling at the Sinopean Club and orders him to stop the Bill. Cardigan hires thugs to kill Disraeli and a man named Herbert to tail him. Jacob intercepts his letter, saves the Disraelis in The Bodyguard, and escorts Mary Anne Disraeli through the Devil's Acre in Driving Mrs. Disraeli until she names Cardigan.
In Motion to Impeach
Cardigan waits in a guarded room at Westminster that only opens to the password Balaclava. The optional objectives ask you not to kill any policemen and not to be detected by the target.
His deathSpoilerShow
Jacob gets the password, poses as Sergeant Abberline and cuts Cardigan's throat at his desk. The Earl spends his last breath lamenting that he died to an Assassin rather than a Russian cannon or an Indian tiger, which annoys Jacob no end.
OverdoseOverdose is the assassination of Dr John Elliotson inside Lambeth Asylum. As Jacob you explore the asylum, help a trapped nurse and stop a brutal electroshock session, then reach Elliotson's lecture theatre by hiding under the sheet of a cadaver.- A Bad PennyA Bad Penny ends Sequence 6 inside the Bank of England. Jacob joins a guided tour, interrogates the guard captain and bank manager, and reaches Philip Twopenny in the vault before his men can finish the robbery.
- Playing PoliticsPlaying Politics opens Sequence 7 at the Sinopean Club, where Jacob watches Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli argue with William Gladstone and looks for the mysterious B who is plotting Disraeli's death. A spy, a rooftop sniper and a chase follow.
- The BodyguardThe Bodyguard has Jacob slip into Benjamin and Mary Anne Disraeli's carriage outside 10 Downing Street just before hired thugs attack it. You fight off the ambush, chase the carriage when it is stolen and bring the couple back safely.
- Driving Mrs. DisraeliDriving Mrs. Disraeli is an escort memory with a comic streak: Jacob shakes off reporters, drives Mary Anne Disraeli and her dog Desmond into the Devil's Acre slum, and keeps her out of trouble long enough to learn who B is.
- Motion to ImpeachMotion to Impeach is the assassination of the Earl of Cardigan inside the Palace of Westminster. Jacob steals a password, takes a policeman hostage to walk into Westminster Hall, and has an opposing MP lead him straight to Cardigan's office.
Related characters
- Supporting
Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Disraeli is the Prime Minister the Templars want dead in Sequence 7. Jacob poses as his bodyguard to save him, and the Disraelis later help the twins steal the Gladstones' invitations to the Buckingham Palace ball.
- Antagonist
Crawford Starrick
Crawford Starrick is the main antagonist of Assassin's Creed Syndicate: Grand Master of the British Templars and the industrialist who controls London in 1868 through his factories, railways, banks, the Blighters gang and a ring of Templar lieutenants. Every major target the Frye twins kill is one of his people, and the main story builds toward a final confrontation with him at Buckingham Palace.
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Jacob Frye
Jacob Frye is one of the two playable Assassins in Assassin's Creed Syndicate, the brawler of the Frye twins. In 1868 he founds the Rooks gang, fights the Blighters for every borough and goes after Crawford Starrick's inner circle one Templar at a time, from Rupert Ferris in Croydon to the Earl of Cardigan in Parliament.
- Supporting
Mary Anne Disraeli
Mary Anne Disraeli is the outspoken wife of the Prime Minister. In Driving Mrs. Disraeli she makes Jacob take her slumming in the Devil's Acre, and in return tells him who the mysterious B behind the plot against her husband is.